Davanagere (Karnataka)[India], October 24 (ANI): Sidharth Rawat made a confident start to his campaign at the ITF Davangere Men’s World Tennis Tour which kicked off at Davangere Tennis Association courts here on Tuesday. The fifth seed scored a facile 6-1, 6-4 win over Suraj Prabodh to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the USD 15,000 event.
On a day where only two singles matches took place, Karan Singh demonstrated his prowess on the court by triumphing over another local lad Rishi Reddy 6-1, 6-4.
Some notable results from the doubles pre-quarterfinal action included a 95-minute battle between the second-seeded pair of Bogdan Bobrov and Nick Chappell of the USA who were made to toil by the all-Indian team of Rishab Agarwal and Nitin Kumar Sinha before prevailing 6-7 (4), 6-1, 11-9.
The top-seeded duo of Purav Raja and Ramkumar Ramanathan overcame a late fightback by the Indo-Malaysian combination of Dev Javia and Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong 6-3, 7-6 (4) to enter the quarterfinals, according to a release.
Results
(Seeds in parenthesis, Country except India mentioned in brackets)
Singles Round of 32
Sidharth Rawat beat Suraj R Prabodh 6-1, 6-4; Karan Singh beat Rishi Reddy 6-1, 6-4;
Doubles (Round of 16)
Oges Theyjo Jaya Prakash/Madhwin Kamath beat Chirag Duhan/Adil Kalyanpur 7-5, 4-6, 10-5; 2-Bogdan Bobrov/Nick Chappell (USA) beat Rishab Agarwal/Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-7 (4), 6-1, 11-9; 1-Purav Raja/Ramkumar Ramanathan beat Dev Javia/Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong (MAS) 6-3, 7-6 (4); 3-Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta/Manish Sureshkumar beat Luke Sorensen (AUS)/Matthew Woerndle (AUS) 7-5, 6-2; WC-Raghav Jaisinghani /Rishi Reddy beat Tushar Madan/Atharva Sharma 6-7 (4), 6-4, 10-7; Ishaque Eqbal/Faisal Qamar beat Parth Aggarwal/Sidharth Rawat 6-2, 7-6 (4); 4-Siddhant Banthia/Vishnu Vardhan beat Digvijay Pratap Singh/Karan Singh 3-1 (retired); WC-Manish Ganesh/Suraj R Prabodh beat Kabir Hans/Jagmeet Singh 7-6 (4), 6-4. (ANI)
